Antananarivo
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Antananarivo, also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra, is the capital of A
Lake Anosy, Central Antananarivo, Capital of Madagascar, Photo by Sascha Grabow
Beautiful jacaranda Antananarivo Madagascar
Royal chapel exterior Rova of Antananarivo Madagascar 2013
Denkmal Philibert Tsiranana Antananarivo 2019 10 02
Architecture of Madagascar
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The architecture of Madagascar is unique in Africa, bearing strong resemblance to the Maritime Southeast Asian construction norms and methods of Southern Borneo from which the earliest inhabitants of
Typical brick houses with columns and west-facing veranda, near Antananarivo
This house in South Kalimantan bears many of the iconic construction features brought from Borneo to Madagascar two thousand years ago: wood plank walls, piles to raise the house from the ground and a steeply sloping roof topped with crossed gable beams to form "roof horns."
The most traditional coastal style: houses with thatched roofing of ravinala on low piles in Sambava
Woven bamboo walls, plank roofing